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A man who contemplates reveng...

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

A forbidden writing is though...

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Let no one think or maintain ...

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Painting is the pattern of on...

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

The partitions of knowledge a...

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

No man's fortune can be an en...

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Parents who wish to train up ...

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

To say that a man lieth, is a...

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Be not penny-wise. Riches hav...

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I'm working for myself; what ...

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Journeys at youth are part of...

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Some books should be tasted, ...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Liberty of speech invites and...

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Men on their side must force ...

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Let every student of nature t...

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

You see, painting has now bec...

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Nothing destroys authority mo...

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

The French are wiser than the...

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

It is nothing won to admit me...

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

It cannot be denied that outw...

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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